Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JAQUELINE SOUSA DE ARAUJO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JAQUELINE SOUSA DE ARAUJO
DATE: 18/12/2025
TIME: 09:30
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Subjective femicide; Psychological violence; Gaslighting; Sentimental fraud; Geography of the body; Invisible lethality.

PAGES: 145
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SUMMARY:

This study proposes the theoretical and legal construction of the concept of subjective feminicide, understood as an invisible form of lethality resulting from the slow destruction of women’s subjectivity and autonomy, produced by a continuous process of psychological violence, emotional manipulation, and romantic fraud. From a phenomenological perspective on violence, this form of death is not restricted to the physical body, but is realized in the lived experience of psychic and existential annihilation. The case of Joyce Araújo, a woman from the Brazilian state of Acre whose life trajectory, in light of the documents analyzed, was traversed by dynamics of psychological violence and affective domination, emerges as the empirical and emblematic core of this investigation, revealing profound normative and epistemological gaps in the response to gender-based violence in Brazil. Despite the advances brought by the Maria da Penha Law and the Feminicide Law, the psychic dimension of violence and its lethal potential remain underestimated, as the justice system still does not fully recognize that gaslighting and affective control can produce extreme psychological suffering and identity destruction. Accordingly, the dissertation proposes a new legal and phenomenological paradigm, grounded in the geography of the body and of violence, articulating Law and Gender Studies in order to understand the female body as a territory of affective colonization and violence as a symbolic and emotional device of control. Methodologically, the research adopts a qualitative, interdisciplinary, and phenomenological approach, combining documental analysis, discourse analysis, and a geographical reading of the body as a violated territory. Digital conversations and records from Joyce’s case are examined as discursive and emotional evidence of psychological violence and affective control. The study seeks to break the silence surrounding women’s subjective deaths, transforming the memory of Joyce Araújo into a political, scientific, and restorative act of resistance, and contributing to the legal recognition of psychic death as a form of femicide.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - LEONISIA MOURA FERNANDES - UFAC
Presidente - 396900 - JOSUE DA COSTA SILVA
Externa ao Programa - 694209 - MARA GENECY CENTENO NOGUEIRA - UNIRInterno - ***.978.969-** - NILSON CESAR FRAGA - UFPR
Externa à Instituição - SUZANNA DOURADO DA SILVA